2nd Week of Lecture [Reflection 2]

For the second week of lecture, the assignments given are getting tougher and more challenging. More focus, diligence and patience are needed in order to be able to complete the tasks given successfully. For this week, mostly we have to worked in pairs to complete the assignments. Glad to mention, my partner is Vanessa Cordilia. The first assigment assigned was Think, Pair and Share. There were 10 topics related to computer and ICT proposed by Dr. Siti Fatimah, our course coordinator. Vanessa and I chose to do the 8th topic that is Web 2.0 in education. The topic sounded easy but actually it was challenging. There are a lot of information available in the net but a major thing to be remembered is NO PLAGIARISM. Both of us were trying our best to figure out what Web 2.0 is all about and how it is being used and apply in education today. To make things easier, we divided the task among the two of us. After a few hours of searching the information and discussion, we have finally managed to come out with a pretty long essay. An AUTHENTIC essay from the two of us. Frankly speaking, there are really a lot of knowledge we gained when doing this assignment. We get to know numbers of example of Web 2.0 such as blog, social networking site such as Facebook, video conferencing, Youtube and so on, how they are applied in education, their advantages and also disadvantages. Nowadays, Web 2.0 is leaving it's footprints in the field of education as e-learning is catching its fame worldwide especially in the tertiary education. Teaching and learning process can be carried out anytime despite the time and place as long as both learners and educators are accessible to the internet. However, we should not be tackled too much of its advantages for there are also numbers of disadvantages of using too much Web 2.0 in learning. As such, it deteriorates the social skills of the students. To read more about what Vanessa and I have come out with, please visit the document that I have uploaded in my facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/groups/145705692171230?view=doc&id=147600461981753.

Besides doing the Web 2.0 issue, we also need to do research on C/LMS (content/learning management system). Things that we have to covered are what is it all about, who uses it, how, why and where it is being used. Apart from that, again we have to list out its pros and cons. For this task, we are required to upload it in Google document. Once again, besides uploading document in Facebook group, to upload document in Google is also my first experience.Computer in Education GE1155 really teaches me a lot of soft technical skills.

Lastly, we were assigned to complete the database in GE1155 yahoo group and also create a table of database in our own yahoo group. Being a non computer savvy, i seriously have no idea on how to do all those things. I tried to be an independent learner by discovering how do manage it by myself. Finally I managed to complete it with a bit of assistance from Mr. Fariddudin. He's always being nice and helpful. Without him, I'm sure that everybody in the class will get lost in their journey of completing the tasks given.